Cap-remover.



D. HA-SLUP.

CAP REMOVER.

APPucATloN FILED DEC. x9, 191s.

1,294,658. Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

DODSON HASLUP, OF GRAFTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

GASP-REMOVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 18, 1919.

Application led December 19, 1918. Seria1 No. 267,492.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DoDsoN HASLUT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grafton, in the county of Taylor and State of West- Virginia, have invented a new and useful Cap-Remover, of which the following is a specification.

It is the object of this invention to provide a simple device for puncturing and re moving milk bottle caps, the structure being capable of being manufactured cheaply out of sheet metal, and being so constructed that it may be grasped readily between Jche thumb and fore finger of the operator.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure l shows in side elevation, a device constructed in accordance with the invention, in place on the cap of a milk bottle; Fig. 2 is a side elevation wherein the structure is viewed at right angles to the showing of Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a bottom plan.

The device forming the subject matter of this application preferably is fashioned from a single piece of metal and includes a base 1 provided along one edge with an upstanding back 2 which may be in the form of an elliptical disk supplied at one edge with a spur 3. The base 1 is provided along its opposite edge with an upstanding flange 4, disposed at an obtuse angle to the base and terminating in a tongue 5, located at an obtuse angle to the ange, the tongue 5 slanting inwardly toward the back 2, both in the direction of the length ofthe tongue and in the direction of the width of the tongue, as designated by the the prong into the opening in the cap 15.

The prong 'Z Y may be inserted readily into the opening in the cap, since the prong projects laterally beyond the {iange 4, as shown in Fig. l. Because the prong 7 forms an acute angle, at 8, with the base 1, the cap 15 will be wedged and held securely between the prong and the base. The back 2, being of elliptical disklike form, is adapted to receive the thumb of the operator, the foreinger supported on the tongue 5, and because the tongue 5 slants inwardly, in the direction of its width, and in the direction of its length, toward the back 2, the forenger finds a convenient support on the tongue, when the device is grasped between the thumb and the forefnger as indicated in Fig. 1.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A device of the class described, fashioned from a single sheet of metal and including a base provided along one edge with an upstanding back, and provided along its opposite edge with an upstanding flange terminating in a tongue which slants inwardly toward the back, there being a prong struck from the ange and the base, the prong defning an acute angle with the base, and be ing extended laterally beyond the flange.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

DODSON HASLUP.

Witnesses:

WM. AnoHDnAcoN, Jr., WM. C. SHANLEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G. 

